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Dir: Delmer Daves - Cast: Glenn Ford (Jubal), Ernest Borgnine (Shep Horgan), Rod Steiger (Pinky), Valerie French (Mae Horgan), Charles Bronson, Felicia Farr, Jack Elam Although
officially based on a novel by Paul Wellman, Jubal is widely regarded as an
adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, with Ernest Borgnine as Othello, Glenn
Ford as Cassio and Rod Steiger as Iago. The script follows the play by and
large but some characters have been merged and Steiger's Pinky (Iago's
counterpart in the movie) has been given different motivations for his
subversive activities. Ford is
Jubal (1), a man on the run (not for the law but for himself) who's given
shelter on Shep Horgan's ranch. Horgan's right hand, Pinky, takes an immediate
disliking to Jubal, who quickly becomes Shep's confidant. When Jubal is named forehand
by Horgan, Pinky feels passed over and his envy grows when he discovers that Mrs.
Horgan is openly flirting with Jubal. Mae Morgan is much younger than her
…

Dir: Philip
Kaufman - Cast: Cliff Robertson (Cole Younger), Robert Duvall (Jesse
James), Luke Askew (Jim Younger), John Pearce (Frank James), R. G.
Armstrong, Matt Clark, Donald Moffat, Dana Elcar, Wayne Sutherlin,
Elisha Cook, Jack Manning The
off-told story of the raid - on September 7, 1876 - of the bank of Northfield
Minnesota, the final act in the history of the infamous James-Younger gang. But
this is not just another movie about the rise and fall of the gang. It opens
with a narration which could be read as a valid excuse for their violent raids:

"Everywhere men from the railroadswere driving poor, defenceless families from
their homes." The
James-Younger gang had their origins in a group of Bushwackers and made their
fame in a Post-war society that was still divided; some people (mainly farmers
who thought the banks and railroads were a threat to their way of life) saw
them as 18th Century Robin Hoods. In the film one more reference is made to the
famous Robin fro…

Seven Men
from Now was Budd Boetticher's personal favorite of the series of low-budget
westerns he made in the late fifties, early sixties, known as the Ranown Cycle.
However, if we respect the origins of the term 'Ranown cycle', it's not part of
it: the five official entries were produced by RANdolph Scott and Harry Joe
BrOWN - hence the name Ranown. Seven men from Now was produced by Batjac Productions,
the company founded, in 1952, by John Wayne. Originally the Duke was supposed
to star in it, but he chose to do John Ford's The Searchers instead.

Randolph
Scott is Ben Stride, an aging ex-sheriff, who is looking for the seven men who
killed his wife during a hold-up in the town of Silver Springs. Stride feels
responsible for the death of his wife because she had taking over the job of
sheriff after he had abandoned it. Stride meets a married couple, John and
Annie Greer, whose wagon got stuck in the mud, and decides to stay with them
when he discovers that John G…

Dir:
William Wiard - Cast: Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth,
Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens, Elisha Cook, Geoffrey Lewis Steven
McQueen's penultimate movie deals with the downfall of the legendary lawman,
scout, detective, hired gunman and convicted assassin Tom Horn (1860 – 1903). As
an army scout Horn assisted in the capture of Geronimo, he served with Teddy Roosevelt's
Rough Riders, and worked as a detective for the Pinkerton Agency, but when the
film starts, he has become an anachronism, a lonely drifter in the quickly
disappearing world, and the events inevitably lead to a foregone conclusion: on
November 23, 1903, one day before his 43rd birthday, Tom Horn is hanged for the
shooting of a 14-year old boy. McQueen,
whose idea the film was, considered several big names as director - among them Don Siegel
and Elliot Silverstein - but for various reasons they never made it past
pre-production; the job eventually went to James Guercio (Electra Glide in Blue),
b…